[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sun May 25 00:26:49 CEST 2008


> Not that difficult. Suppose I have the character Ó˜, I just do
> 
> py> unicodedata.name(u"Ó˜")
> 'CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA'
> 
> I used cut-n-paste to insert the character into the interactive prompt;
> that worked just fine.

I suppose, if I knew about unicodedata.name(), and if my cursed
command-line terminal supported cut-and-paste.  Between rxvt, xterm,
Emacs shell buffers, Windows command shells, and OS X Terminal.app
windows, I find it hard to know just what will and will not work in
that regard.

Bill



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